Native Name: Mozaik Muszesi
The Great Palace Mosaic Museum is located near Sultanahmet Square at Arasta Bazaar. The museum houses mosaics from the Byzantine period. In 1933, excavators discovered a series of mosaics below what is now the Arasta Bazaar and after that, more mosaics were unearthed in the 1950s. This collection is identified as the floor of a peristyle courtyard of Constantine's Great Palace. The collection represents an earlier artistic era when religious motifs were absent and instead, hunting scenes and scenes from mythology were depicted.
The Great Palace of Constantinople was constructed during the reign of Justinian I (527-565). The Great Palace mosaic was the largest and the most beautiful landscape in antiquity (6th century A.D). The tessellated pavement in the b...
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